Fire in Human Evolution

June 7, 2024
WDG

The “Fire in Human Evolution” international Symposium will take place at the University of Leiden (10-11 June 2024). The meeting is being organized by Femke Reidsma and Amanda Henry. The meeting will include talks and discussion on:

  • Fire perception, social interaction, and culture
  • Fire as landscape management
  • Fire, cooking and diet
  • Fire technology and cognition 
  • Archaeological signatures of fire

For full details click here.

Advances in tropical research symposium

November 2, 2018
WDG

Treub Maatschappij – Society for the Advancement of Research in the Tropics &
The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam…
…invites you to join this symposium.

Date: 15 November 2018
Location: Amsterdam Science Park

Programme

13.30-13.45: Welcome

13.45-14.15: Dr Robert-Jan Wille
History Department, Utrecht University
Dutch colonial science in the age of Melchior Treub: evolution, development and symbiosis as political and scientific themes in the late nineteenth century

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Biodiversity and global change in the tropics

November 7, 2016
WDG

Treub Maatschappij – Society for the Advancement of Research in the Tropics
&
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED),University of Amsterdam

“Biodiversity and global change in the tropics”

Coordinators: Carina Hoorn & W. Daniel Kissling
Time: Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-17:00
Location: University of Amsterdam, Science Park (click here for link to registration)

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Caspian Sea mini symposium

March 9, 2016
WDG

Research Group of Palaeoecology & Landscape Ecology
Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics
University of Amsterdam

Date: 01/04/2016
Time: 15:00-18:00
Location: Amsterdam Science Park 904 
Registration: Contact Prof. dr. Henry Hooghiemstra or Dr. Carina Hoorn to book your place and receive location details

15:00-15:30
Frank Wesselingh & the PRIDE team
How high can you get? Mountain uplift driving diversification in Pontocaspian lakes before humans bring down the unique aquatic biota?

15:30-16:00
Christiaan van Baak
Mediterranean-Paratethys connectivity during the late Miocene to recent

– 16:00-16:15 tea/coffee break –

16:15-17:15
Keith Richards
Studies in Caspian palynology: Vegetation, climate and sea level change

17:15-18:00
Questions and discussion

Highlights of Dutch research in the tropics

October 5, 2015
WDG

Symposium
125 years Treub Maatschappij – Society for the Advancement of Research in the Tropics
&
Biodiversity & Global Change (IBED/UvA)

present:
“Highlights of Dutch research in the tropics”
Coordinators: Carina Hoorn & Daniel Kissling

Location: Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam Science Park (Building 904)
Time: Wednesday 11 November 2015, 1300-1700 (followed by drinks reception)
For further information, and to book your place, visit the IBED web site by clicking here.

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